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In the current issue of Dead Sea Discoveries 28.1 (2021), Laura Quick, “Bitenosh’s Orgasm, Galen’s Two Seeds and Conception Theory in the Hebrew Bible” the Abstract includes: “…. in this essay I argue that rather than deriving these ideas [of embryogenesis] from the Greco-Roman world, the conception...

“Parallelomania” is the title of an article by Samuel Sandmel in Journal of Biblical Literature 81.1 (March 1962) 1-13, from a December 27, 1961 lecture, which is influential but may not be entirely reliable. Sandmel began: “I encountered the term parallelomania, as I recall, in a French book of abo...

Albert Baumgarten, “The Name of the Pharisees,” J. of Biblical Literature 1983, proposed two meanings of the name: pĕrûšîm,“separatists,” and pārôšîm,“specifiers.” After the destruction of the Temple, there were efforts to reduce separatism, so the name Pharisee in the sense of separatist was dislik...

And, as with the Dead Sea Scrolls, there were also Dunhuang forgeries. If interested, the book, Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries, edited by Susan Whitfield (The British Library, 2002) has details. Table of Contents here:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/336227256.pdf

Yes, a very important find, though it happened closer to one hundred and eighteen years ago. Important largely for Buddhism and translation studies, but also, along with the slightly later Asian find at Turfan (or Turpan), important for comparative views of apocalyptic, angels, Enoch, Nestorian Chri...

Because of wars, fires, leadership quarrels, non-continuous operation, and probably also other factors unhelpful to preserving ancient mss.

You may imagine "they have stuff like a copy of Marcion's New Testament" but imo that is exceedingly unlikely.

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” appeared in 1895 in the context of geology discussion, I noted elsewhere. But then the “Quote Investigator” blogger found a precursor in Live Stock Journal of 1891. And (meta) the saying may well be older than that. In an earlier posting on ane-3 list...

Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal 19 (2020) -- Special Josephus Issue https://jewish-faculty.biu.ac.il/en/node/1602 Michael Avioz and Meir Ben Shahar, "Editors’ Preface" Kenneth Atkinson, "Josephus's Use of Scripture to Describe Hasmonean Territorial Expansion" Meir Ben Shahar, "Dating the Destruc...

StephenGoranson wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:18 am
mary helena, and were Pliny the Elder and Dio also writing fiction about Essenes?

maryhelena:
Philo set the agenda.......

Hmmm. Pliny named hundreds of his sources. Where's Waldo, I mean, Philo of Alexandria?